Archives for English

Concern over delay of reformed functional skills

February 6, 2019

‘Why are some children leaving school still unable to read?’

November 22, 2018

Militant tenderness: how teachers are rooting out sexism in school

August 28, 2018

Blaming failures in KS3 English progression on flawed KS2 data is ignoring the real problem

‘The explosion of online hate speech represents a very real challenge for teachers’

School’s grammar question for kids criticised by Michael Rosen: ‘Improving sentences by making them worse’

February 13, 2018

Guest Post: 6 reasons to bring mastery to primary English

January 16, 2018

Grammar teaching in the national curriculum: has it failed the test?

December 20, 2017

Warning my students about a lecture on assault does not make them snowflakes

October 31, 2017

Subjects other than English and Maths barely feature in Ofsted reports

October 9, 2017

The Curious Incident of the West End play touring schools.

October 4, 2017

Moving in English Circles

September 4, 2017

IPads ‘help improve young pupils’ skills’.

Battle on the adverbials front: grammar advisers raise worries about Sats tests and teaching.

Decision to retain forced maths and English GCSE resits ‘extremely’ disappointing

Teachers can use drama to bring writing to life for children

January 17, 2017

Things you were taught at school that are wrong

January 12, 2017

Pupils who learn to speak confidently do better in life.

November 8, 2016